Improved washing-machine



dutrd Ctttr @tutti @dimite J. M. vSHUCK, OF OSKALOO'SA, IOWA.

Letters Patent No. 90,467, dated .Ma/y 25, 1869.

IMPRO'VED WASHINGMACHINE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Ptent and making part of thename.

'the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in washingmachines, and consistsin the arrangement of a pair of `vibrating wash-boards operating inconjunction, the

one having a surface corrugatedhorizontally and vertically, andthe othercomposed of vertical bars arranged at suitable distances apart, thespaces between coinciding with the vertical lines of protuberances onthe first-mentioned board.

Figure l represents a longitudinahsectional elevation of my improvedmachine; and

Figure 2 represents a plan View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the case, preferably of rectangular form in the horizontalplane, but having bottom inclined with respect to the horizontal line.

IB represents a wash-board, corrugated vertically and horizontally,supported in an edgewise position transversely of the case, andconnected to a sliding frame, O, resting on the bottom of the case, andderiving motion from the crank-shaft D.

E represents a wash-board composed of bars F, arranged side by side atregular intervals, and sup ported at each end by the rails Gr. The saidboard is pivoted iu the axis of the upper rail G, by the `ends thereof,to the sides of the case, on which pivots it is oscillated by aconuectingrod, also operated by the -main shaft.

The vertical lines of protuberances of the board B are coincident withthe spaces between the bars F of l i thus, in conjunction with'thelatter, cause the clothes to change position by an intermittent rotarymotion.

The two boards4 are so arranged as to have a mov'ement in one direction,in unison, 01 nearly so, while in the other direction the movement ofthe board E is more rapid than the other, moving away from it, andtaking against the clothes in a new position when starting into thefirst-mentioned movement, in unsonwith the board B. c

,'By pivoting the boardE at its upper endand connectingit with thecrank-shaft D at the same point, it is enabled to oscillate for thepurpose of moving the clothes, and become stationary when thesqueezingoperation is performed.

I am aware that hinged or pivoted squeezers have heretofore beenoperated from a double-crank shaft, but in all cases the oscillatingsqueez'er has been hinged` at its lower end to the suds-box, and itsupper end attached' to the connecting-rod from the crank-shaft; both squeezers, therefore, move from and toward each other uniformly.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pattenty The board E,when pivoted at its upper end, and connected to the crank-shaft D at thesame point, by means of the pitman H, in combination with the board B,also connected. to the crank-shaft D, all operating as described, forthe purpose specilied.

J. M. SHUGK.

Witnesses:

C. W. FISHER, J. M. Hmmm.

